Showing posts with label Kingfisher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kingfisher. Show all posts
Common Kingfisher
Bengali: ছোট মাছরাঙা
Scientific Name: Alcedo atthis
IUCN: Least Concern
Description: This sparrow-sized bird has the typical short-tailed, large-headed kingfisher profile. It has bright metallic-blue upperparts including head, back is cobalt color and one can see greenish reflections on the head and wings. Orange ear-coverts and underparts, the chin and sides of neck are white. A long blackish bill and reddish orange at the base. Legs are bright red.
Food: The Common kingfisher is carnivore and mainly eats fish and small crustaceans, such as prawns and crabs. It also catches insects in flight.
Habitat: In temperate regions, this kingfisher inhabits clear, slow-flowing streams and rivers, and lakes with well-vegetated banks.
Distribution: Widely distributed over Europe, Asia, and North Africa, mainly south of 60°N.
Stork-Billed Kingfisher
Bengali: মেঘহও মাছরাঙা / গুরিয়াল
Scientific Name: Pelargopsis capensis
IUCN: Least Concern
Description: It has huge red bill. have a greenish-blue back, blue wings and tail, and a grey to brown crown and head. The neck and underparts are orange-yellow coloured and coral red small legs.
Food: mostly marine and freshwater fish
Habitat: Stork-billed Kingfisher is a species of a variety of well-wooded habitats near lakes, rivers or coasts and mangroves.
Distribution: widely but sparsely distributed in the tropical Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, from India to Indonesia.
White-Throated Kingfisher or White-Breasted Kingfisher
Bengali: সাদা বুক মাছরাঙা / ধলাগলা মাছরাঙা
Scientific Name: Halcyon smyrnensis
IUCN: Least Concern
Description: Thick, reddish-orange bills, red legs, and its head, shoulders, flanks and lower belly are chestnut. A brilliant white patch can be found on the throat and sometimes at the breast. The wings and the tail are bright blue with white patches on the primaries and black distal tips. In flight, large white patches are visible on the blue and black wings.
Food: This species are carnivorous, mainly hunts large crustaceans, insects, earthworms, rodents, snakes, fish and frogs. Predation of small birds such as the Oriental White-eye, chick of a sparrows and munias have been reported.
Habitat: They are common in agricultural areas, swamps, marshes, near ponds, lakes, in parklands and in mangrove swamps.
Distribution: Widely distributed in Asia from the Sinai east through the Indian subcontinent to the Philippines.
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